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Condi Rice signed an agreement today to station missiles in Poland. Supposedly aimed at Iran, the installation of these missiles just a few miles from the Russian border serves mainly to enrage the Russians, who see it as part of a grander scheme to encircle Russia.

Don't say we didn't warn you. First, it was alcohol and smoking bans. Now it's fast food. The nannies just won't let up until they can regulate or ban anything that doesn't fit into their Weltanschauung. "The Los Angeles City Council has passed an ordinance prohibiting construction of new fast-food restaurants in a 32-square-mile area inhabited by 500,000 low-income people."

County Health director David Grossman is cutting a rat control position because of lack of funding. In the meantime, Grossman is pressing ahead with his state-unfunded enforcement of smoking in bars. "They aren't getting away with it," Grossman stated. Looks like Grossman's jihad against smokers is taking front seat to rat eradication.

3 smoke-ban complaints snuffed

Bulldog Bob is getting out early. Why ? Don't you think that a public official should be held to a higher standard and serve his full time ?

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case about whether—for the first time in decades—a criminal can be executed for a crime that isn't murder. Patrick Kennedy was convicted in 2004 for the rape of a child, his 8-year-old stepdaughter, and the state of Louisiana contends that his crime is tantamount to murder and worthy of death.

The Minnesota Board of Education is allowing a taxpayer funded "public" school to keep operating even though its clearly a religious Islamic school.

Of course, if this were a Christian school getting funded by tax dollars, all hell would be breaking loose. Why the double standard?

http://www.startribune.com/local/17406054.html

The state has moved to take control of the smoking prevention fund. The administrators of the fund didn't hide the money from the state. And now they plan on burning it for they own purposes. They have pilfered this fund until they is only a small percentage left.

Traveling into or out of the country? Prepare to have your cell phone, laptop, and other electronic devices seized -for no apparent reason to you. It's becoming positively Orwellian in this country, and the government's police powers are absolute.

Pastor Got $1.5 Million in Clinton Earmarks Before Endorsement
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11565939/
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) secured more than $1 million in federal funding last year for a Harlem-based non-profit whose leader gave her presidential campaign a major endorsement last weekend.

Israel has closed off Gaza (again!) and stopped fuel shipments, resulting in the shutdown of electrical power in the area. At least 800,000 people are now in darkness. The catastrophe will affect hospitals, medical clinics, water wells, houses, factories, all aspects of life.

The folks who invented the credit score for lenders are hard at work developing a similar tool for hospitals and other health care providers.

From the Toledo Blade: The principal of Leverette Junior High School filed a complaint in Lucas County Common Pleas Court yesterday demanding information about a Web site that he claims has been posting items that are "false and defamatory."

The recent raid of Platinum Showgirls by three undercover police officers and a health department inspector, then by "a half dozen uniformed police officers", is a shocking waste of Toledo's stretched police resources. What was the purpose of the raid? Drugs, guns, white slavery, felony crime? No, they were there to bust smokers!

Recent events in Colorado and Oklahoma show that these well intended signs accomplish nothing. Shooters pay no attention to them .
I was chatting with a sheriff deputy at a basketball game. He leaves his firearm home when he goes out shopping. He puts himself at risk when he does this, many of the local yahoos know him because he works at the jail too.

Article published Monday, August 27, 2007
Toledo a safe place to raise your family

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The head of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP said Wednesday that Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has made mistakes but that they should not cost him his football career with the NFL.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/22/vick/index.html

"Some Toledoans will undoubtedly suggest that Mr. Finkbeiner simply leave his pet at home during the work day, but if the mayor wants his faithful companion by his side and Scout

TOLEDO BLADE - As is the case with most newly elected politicians, Lucas County Commissioner Ben Konop was talking about change when he was sworn in last December...With a mission to challenge the existing structures of government for new efficiencies and greater cost-effectiveness, Commissioner Ben Konop will today launch a

Woman settles suit against city, officer
By: The Toledo Journal
The Toledo Journal
Originally posted 4/10/2007

http://thetoledojournal.com/News/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=77740&sID=4

BY JOURNAL STAFF

Toledo resident Marisha Austin has settled a police brutality lawsuit against the city, agreeing to a settlement amount that city officials had hoped to keep confidential.....

The Toledo Journal has a story about this incident - I had not heard about it. http://thetoledojournal.com/News/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=77742&sID=4

They don't leave their stories up for very long - so I suggest taking a look at it - watch the NBC 24 footage

mms://media02.toast.net/nbc24.com/news/03310711pmtaserincident.wmv

Tell me your impressions?

I recently read on Maggie Thurber

The plot thickens...and no, you can't fire someone for just being "lazy" (in and by itself)...

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070309/NEWS16/703090...

Michael Miller

Deep freeze shuts schools for second straight day

Maybe I can get my boss to listen to this logic, but somehow I just don't think that will happen.

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